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Game Show Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Game Show Network (GSN) is an American digital cable and satellite televisionchannel that is owned as a joint venture between Sony Pictures Television (owning a controlling 5. AT& T Inc. (holding a 4. The channel's programming is primarily dedicated to game shows, including reruns of classic game shows, along with new, first- run original and revived game shows. For a period in the mid- 2. Game Show Network began branching out into "games" in general, including reality competition series and televised poker shows.

As of February 2. American households (6. GSN.[2]History[edit]Pre- launch[edit]On May 7, 1. Sony Pictures Entertainment joined forces with the United Video Satellite Group to launch Game Show Channel, which was set to launch in 1.

The announcement of the channel was made by SPE president Mel Harris.[3] Sony Pictures' holdings included those by Merv Griffin Enterprises and Barris Industries, Inc. SPE was in competition with The Family Channel in launching a game show- oriented channel when The Family Channel announced the launch of its own service called Game Channel.

On December 2, 1. Sony Pictures Entertainment made a deal to acquire the Barry & Enright game show library, and in a separate deal, struck a 1. Mark Goodson game show library of more than 2.

What's My Line?, Family Feud and To Tell the Truth. Upon the deal, Sony said it would sell an equity stake in the network to Mark Goodson Productions, including the production of new original series by Jonathan Goodson Productions.[4] Both deals were completed on December 7, 1. Mark Goodson's death.[5] On June 6, 1. Mark Goodson Productions pulled out of the venture.[6][7]1.

Game Show Network launched at 7: 0. ET on December 1, 1. The first aired game show was What's My Line?[9][1.

From 1. 99. 4 until about 1. Mark GoodsonвЂ“Bill Todman library.

The network aired game shows in a 2. In its first few months, GSN's commercials consisted of public service announcements (PSAs), promotions for its programming and commercials related to network parent company Sony.

By 1. 99. 5, when the network began to expand, the network began accepting conventional advertising as it gained new sponsorships. On October 1. 1, 1. Goodson- Todman library expired, with the exceptions of The Price Is Right and the 1. Family Feud, which were both allowed to continue airing on the channel on a separate contract.

This period lasted until April 1. With the other Goodson- Todman shows gone, lesser- known Sony properties such as Juvenile Jury, The Diamond Head Game, the 1. Break the Bank, and the Bill Cullen- hosted games Chain Reaction and Pass the Buck all found their way onto the schedule. Shows from Chuck Barris also aired during this time, including The Newlywed Game, The Dating Game, The Gong Show, Treasure Hunt and 3's a Crowd. Game Show Network also aired a children's game show block at this time, highlighted by Joker! Joker! Joker!, Jep!, and Wheel 2. The Joker's Wild, Jeopardy!

Wheel of Fortune. On April 1. 8, 1. Game Show Network bought back the rights to the Goodson- Todman library. In late 1. 99. 8, GSN eliminated all of its live programming, replacing them with in- show advertisements like Win TV. In 1. 99. 9, the network began a slate of original programming, including Inquizition, All New 3's a Crowd and Hollywood Showdown.

The channel also launched original shows such as Extreme Gong (a remake of the classic Gong Show). In 2. 00. 0, the network faced another setback when GSN lost the rights to broadcast The Price Is Right, with the last episode airing on April 3 of that year. In 2. 00. 1, a massive change in both leadership and programming at the network took place. Liberty Media acquired a 5. President Michael Fleming and vice president Jake Tauber were both fired and former Fox Family Channel president Rich Cronin were hired to head the network.

He and incoming vice president Bob Boden began the biggest original programming venture since the network's inception, launching Whammy! The All- New Press Your Luck, Friend or Foe?, Russian Roulette, Lingo, Win. Tuition and Cram. In addition, in the fall of 2.

Press Your Luck (excluding the Michael Larson episodes, due to pressure from CBS; this angered many fans, resulting in CBS eventually giving Game Show Network the rights to the Larson episodes, airing them in a separate package, as well as in conjunction with the documentary Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal). In the fall of 2. Game Show Network picked up the rights to the ABC version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with Regis Philbin, and in December, began airing GSN Video Games, the first program to air on the network that had nothing to do with traditional game shows. Although the show вЂ“ a repackaging of somewhat dated British video game review shows (mostly Gamer. Game Show Network's "all game shows, all the time" to what eventually became "GSN: The Network for Games". On March 1. 5, 2. ET, Game Show Network began using the abbreviation "GSN" and introduced the tagline "The Network for Games", a move in line with the network expanding its programming to include the genre of reality television and various other competitions.

GSN also introduced the original series World Series of Blackjack, Celebrity Blackjack, Extreme Dodgeball, Poker Royale, and the short- lived Fake- a- Date, Vegas Weddings Unveiled and Ballbreakers. GSN also added reruns of The Mole, Average Joe, Arsenio Hall's Star Search, Kenny vs. Spenny and Spy TV, all of which were eventually removed from the schedule (though Kenny vs.

Spenny was picked up for new episodes by Comedy Central in 2. Traditional game shows Win Ben Stein's Money and Street Smarts were also acquired around this time and aired in various time slots, though neither aired regularly by mid- March 2. Blackjack and Poker Royale signified the beginnings of GSN's attempts to cash in on the TV poker craze at the time.

In 2. 00. 6, GSN introduced High Stakes Poker, a poker show with a private game format among professional players, and also aired additional series World Series of Blackjack and a spinoff, Celebrity Blackjack. One of the most popular shows from the initial TV poker boom, the World Poker Tour, was slated to move from the Travel Channel to GSN on March 2. Within a year of GSN's revamp, it began returning its focus primarily to studio- based game shows. On February 2. 5, 2. GSN returned to live television games and debuted GSN Live, a live interactive call- in show, hosted by Heidi Bohay and Fred Roggin. The show was similar in format to a former Game Show Network program, Club A. M., and aired weekdays from 1.

ET during breaks between the programming line- up at the time. The show featured calls from viewers, interviews with classic game show hosts and behind- the- scenes features of game shows. At three separate points in each day, interactive games were played with at- home contestants. Contestants could win anything from jewelry to GSN merchandise, or during month- long contests, a new car or a hot tub. Coupled with some of these changes in an aggressive marketing campaign.

GSN sent Alfonso Ribeiro on a promotional tour to local television stations to promote the new game show Catch 2. July 2. 00. 8; the original producer of Gambit, Merrill Heatter, returned in the same capacity), while it partnered with ABC to create Play It Again! Game Show Reunion Week, a series of one- off episodes of classic game shows for the network's morning news and lifestyle program Good Morning America, in exchange for promotion of the September 2. Play It Back" programming blocks, which featured marathons of game shows from the 1. In October of that year, a second season of Bingo America premiered with former Family Feud host Richard Karn as the new host, replacing Patrick Duffy. Also in 2. 00. 8, GSN aired Think Like a Cat, sponsored by Meow Mix cat food, hosted by Chuck Woolery.[1.

On June 1, 2. 00. GSN began airing the NBC version of Deal or No Deal. The network also premiered a revival of The Newlywed Game, and a new original in Baggage.

On February 2. 6, 2. Norm Macdonald became the new host of GSN's High Stakes Poker.[1. The series was quickly dropped a few days later, due to the ramifications resulting from United States v. Scheinberg, the court case that shut down several of the show's sponsors. In March 2. 01. 1, Direc. TV (which by this point had taken over Liberty Media's stake in the network, which had increased to 6.

Sony Pictures Entertainment; although Direc. TV nominally remained the majority owner, it had ceded control of the network to Sony, and has the right to force Sony to increase its stake in GSN to 5. On November 6, 2. GSN began airing the Fox version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

On March 1. 4, 2. GSN announced that it acquired the rights to the Steve Harvey version of Family Feud, and began airing these episodes on March 2. The show is currently the most popular program on the network, airing multiple times a day.

On August 2. 3, 2. GSN debuted The American Bible Challenge hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, which became the channel's most popular program of all time, with the series premiere being watched by two million viewers.

On September 3, 2. GSN debuted a revival of The $2. Pyramid, called The Pyramid hosted by Mike Richards. On October 8, 2. 01. GSN reacquired the classic show Press Your Luck. On November 8, 2. Direc. TV sold an 1.

GSN to Sony.[1. 5]On March 2. GSN announced that it had acquired 6. NBC game show Sale of the Century, as well as "New to GSN" episodes of Press Your Luck.[1. It was also announced that the Richard Dawson version of Family Feud would be leaving the schedule for the first time in network history.

On August 6, 2. 01. GSN debuted The Chase hosted by Brooke Burns and featuring Mark Labbett as "The Beast".

On June 5, 2. 01. GSN debuted It Takes a Church hosted by Natalie Grant. The second season premiered on March 2. On August 6, 2. 01. GSN debuted a new reality competition series called Skin Wars hosted by Rebecca Romijn.